An interesting thread on esdiscuss in which numerous well known JavaScript developers, including Brendan Eich, talk about ‘ECMAScript 2015’, the name for the spec formerly known as ES6. Brendan notes that ‘ES6 = ECMAScript 2015, ES7 = ECMAScript 2016, etc.’

Strings in JavaScript have been historically limited, lacking the capabilities one might expect coming from languages like Python or Ruby. ES6 Template Strings (available in Chrome 41+), fundamentally change that.

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